Shen Bo, a statesman and strategist in the Western Zhou Dynasty

Shen Bo (Wang Lizhi to Xuan Wang in the Western Zhou Dynasty), a famous politician and strategist in the Western Zhou Dynasty, was the founding monarch of Shen State (now Nanyang City, Henan Province).

In the west (827-782 BC), in order to curb the rise of Chu power in the southern land and "protect the country with feudal relatives", King Xuan changed his uncle Shen Bo to Nanyang in 827 BC or later, and established Shen Guo.

Nanyang was originally a fief of Xie in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

In order to build a new Shencheng, King Xuan ordered Bohu to be transferred from the front line of Huai Yi to Nanyang, "to thank the city wall" and "to define Shenbo's house (palace)", to build the former king's "sleeping temple" and to delimit Shenbo's land.

When Shen Bo went to China, Xuan Wang held a grand farewell ceremony for him. Minister Yin Jifu wrote a poem for Shen Bo, which was later included in The Book of Songs.

After Shen Bo arrived in Nanyang, he improved stone tools and pottery utensils, developed metal production tools, expanded cattle industry and encouraged Chinese people to reclaim land.

At the same time, adjusting the defense thought and strengthening the construction of chariots and water army effectively prevented the Chu army from advancing northward, laid the foundation for the development of agriculture and handicrafts in Nanyang, and made contributions to "Wang Xuan Zhongxing".

At the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the son of Wang You, born after the abolition of the imperial edict, was made a prince, which aroused the dissatisfaction of Shen Hou (the son of Shen Bo).

Empress Shen, Gui and Xirong jointly attacked the Zhou Dynasty, which led to the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

In 770 BC, the Queen of God appointed Prince Yijiu as the King of Zhou (Zhou Pingwang) and moved the capital to Luoyi, which once again played a role in reversing Gankun and opening up a new era.

The Pioneer of Nanyang City Civilization

□ Zhang Xiaodong

Judging from the recorded history, the history of Nanyang city can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty.

This achievement should be attributed to Shen Bo. There is a poem dedicated to Shen Bo in the Book of Songs, which says, "The king ordered him to call his house."

From the moment when the Zhou Dynasty court officially issued documents and built the Shenbo Palace, the urban civilization of Nanyang began.

Thanks to Shen Bo's good leadership, reclaiming wasteland and improving tools, Shen Guo became stronger day by day.

It not only contained Chu, but also realized "prospering Wang Xingguo".

Relying on Shen Bo's literary martial arts and Nanyang's special geographical advantages, Nanyang soon became a pivotal city.

In the subsequent historical development process, Nanyang became the iron smelting center of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and developed into one of the "six metropolises" where merchants gathered.

Shen Bo opened a new chapter in Nanyang's urban construction. It can be said that Shen Bo is the first person to explore the urban construction of Nanyang.

Priscilla, a statesman and thinker in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Bai lixi (about 700 BC ~ 62 BC1year), surnamed Bai lixi, was born in the Spring and Autumn Period (now Nanyang, Henan Province), a famous politician and thinker in the history of China, and the founding prime minister of Qin who unified the world.

In his early years, his family was poor, and with the support of his wife Du Shi, he traveled to various countries to seek officials and went through the vassal States of Song and Qi.

Later, under the recommendation of his good friend Uncle Jian, he became a doctor in Yuzhou.

In 655 BC, the state of Jin (offering sacrifices to the public) was destroyed in the country.

Priscilla refused to be an official in the state of Jin, was taken into slavery, and then fled back to Chu to herd cattle.

Qin Mugong heard about Xian, and later sent someone to exchange Prissy for five pieces of black rams' skins, and worshipped him as a doctor, so he was called "the five great men (rams)" by the deceased.

During his presidency of Qin State, Balixi advocated civilized education and implemented the policy of "attaching importance to the people", which made the people get more benefits, tried to dominate Xirong, unified today's Gansu and Ningxia, and began the rise of Qin State.

During this period, Qin Xiaogong called it an "exceptionally beautiful" era.

History contains "Three Kings of Jin State", "Saving the Disaster of Jingzhou" and "Teaching from within, Ba people pay tribute; Shi De was a vassal, and Ba Rong came to serve, which made Qin one of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period and laid a solid foundation for Qin to finally unify China.

As a doctor of Qin, Prissy is diligent in government affairs, approachable and simple in life.

"If you don't take it, you can't cover it in summer, and you can travel in the middle school. It doesn't ride or fight. "

It is deeply loved by the people. "When you die, men and women in Qin cry, boys don't sing, and those who fail don't match."

The old house and tomb of Bailixi are in the area of Xibailixi Village in Nanyang City.

"Notes on Water Classics" records: "Meixi River flows from Zi Shan in the north of (Wan) County, and the former residence of Baili River flows in the south.

"Records of Nanyang Mansion in Jiajing of Ming Dynasty" records: "In the east of Bailixi Village, it is about seven meters high and is called the tomb of Baili Doctor.

Seven huge stones are placed in front of the tomb, which is called the Seven-Star Tomb.

In the 23rd year of Kaiyuan in Tang Dynasty (AD 735), Zheng Lian wrote the Inscriptions of the Five Great Men.

"There is a monument on the left side of the tomb, which is engraved with Tang and Song poems.

Ma Ji Shi, a famous Qin historian in China, denied the theory of "Guo Yu" and made a detailed textual research on Bai Xixi as a Nanyang man.

Xin he Niu yi

□ Chen Mingyuan

King Chucheng will never know until he dies. He listened to Priscilla's way of governing the country earlier than Qin Mugong and was completely unaware of it.

That dialogue, which fully demonstrated Priscilla's wisdom and strategy, was incomprehensible to the dull and shallow King Chu Cheng, but left a laughing stock for King Chu Cheng.

Today, 2600 years later, we can still remember their conversation in Wandi.

At this time, King Chu Cheng heard that Priscilla of Wandi was good at raising cattle, so he asked, "Is there any way to raise cattle?" Prissy replied, "When you eat, what you care about is your strength. Your heart and cow are one."

"The king said," well, son! Not only cows, but also horses.

So Prissy became the groom of King Chu Cheng.

In this way, the self-righteous Chu Chengwang missed the talented scholar Baijila, and later Baijila called himself "Xi Rongbo" by feeding cattle in Qin State.

"Harmony between heart and ox" is widely accepted as a basic pursuit of ruling art in past dynasties, that is, treating others with oneself, putting yourself in others' shoes, showing compassion for others and building a harmonious and ideal society.

Later, Confucius's "benevolent love" and today's "loving, empowering and benefiting the people" are the development and evolution of this concept. This is a kind of compassionate education, not a bargaining negotiation, not a game of intrigue, but a harmonious scene of "unity of heart and people" and "harmony".

Judging from what he did later in the state of Qin, he did practice this political proposition.

What he brought to the state of Qin was not a cruel war, nor a harsh political pressure, but a kind and tolerant way of governing the country, which is "the heart and the cow are one."

With his help, Qin Mugong established three emperors, ruled the princes, conquered Xirong, and expanded for thousands of miles, which laid the foundation for Qin to unify the whole country.

Fan Li was a politician, strategist and businessman in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Fan Li (about 5 18 ~ 445 BC), a native of three ethnic groups (now Nanyang, Henan Province), was a politician, strategist and businessman at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, and was later called "Shang Sheng".

The history books say that "the style of writing is full of spirits", and it is said that Qixian County is "carried away". Later, he went to Yue State to be an official, and * * * assisted Gou Jian, the king of Yue State, all of whom were famous doctors in Yue State.

In 494 BC, a war broke out between wuyue and China.

Fu Cha, the king of Wu, defeated the Vietnamese army, and Gou Jian took his wife as a slave to Wu Wei, while Fan Li accompanied the king of Yue to Wu Wei as a hostage.

Fan Li won the trust of the king of Wu with his strategy, which enabled Gou Jian to return to China smoothly.

After returning home, he assisted Gou Jian in trying to get revenge.

After more than ten years' efforts, the country of Yue has finally changed from weak to strong.

In 479 BC, Fu Cha, the king of Wu, led a good soldier to the north, and met the princes in Huangchi, leaving the prince and the old and weak to defend the country.

At his suggestion, Gou Jian suddenly attacked Wu and attacked Wudu (now Suzhou, Jiangsu).

In 473 BC, Wu Xingyue was finally destroyed.

After his success, Fan Li retired from the torrent and took a boat to the seaside of Qi State. He changed his name to Ziyipi, worked in the seashore, boiled salt around the sea, and fished and bred.

After painstaking efforts, the accumulated capital has reached hundreds of thousands, and its reputation is far-reaching.

At this time, the Qi people discovered his talent and let him be a minister of Qi for three years.

Fan Li has the idea of "being rich and doing good" and once said to someone, "Running a family can buy a daughter's property, and being an official can reach your position as prime minister, which has reached the limit. It is unlucky to enjoy such splendor for a long time.

"So, he returned to Xiangyin, squandered all his wealth, sent away his relatives and neighbors, quietly left the seaside, settled in Tao Di, resumed business, and became a well-known Tao Zhugong with millions of assets in his hand.

Fan Li's simple classical economic theory in China, such as "summer is the revolution, winter is the hope (fine linen), drought is the boat, and water is the car to be scarce", has been admired and imitated by businessmen of all ages for thousands of years, and has been affecting future generations, and has been regarded as a standard by Chinese and foreign economists.

Fan Li's comments

□ Wang Jianzhong

In the first half of his life, Fan Li assisted Gou Jian, the king of Yue, in destroying Xing Wu's Yue state, and his achievements were outstanding, which deserves our attention.

However, his later life is still worth summarizing.

His later life was very bumpy, and he generally experienced "floating on the sea", "farming by the sea", "father and son plowing livestock" and "goods trading".

That is to say, there are four stages: resigning to the sea, taking agriculture as the foundation, combining agriculture with animal husbandry, and abandoning agriculture for business.

Among them, the fourth stage is an important accumulation stage of its assets from "100 thousand" to "1 thousand" and then to "one million"

At this stage, we not only need to boldly challenge the traditional concepts of "cheap business" and "restraining business", but also need to create new business theories and practices.

In the historical tide of China's transformation from a slave society to a feudal society, Fan Li sailed downstream and took the lead in the other side of the system reform.

There are many reasons for Fan Li's success in being an official, farming and doing business, but the most fundamental one is literacy.

If there is anything worthy of admiration, it is Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, who commented on him: "Those who are rich and kind are virtuous."

Zhang Qian, the pioneer of "Silk Road"

Zhang Qian, Zi Wenzi (? ~ BC 1 14), a native of Chenggu (now Chenggu County, Shaanxi Province) in the Western Han Dynasty.

An outstanding diplomat in the Western Han Dynasty and a pioneer of the Silk Road.

Because of his outstanding exploits, he was named Hou, and the fief was in Wang Bo Town, Fangcheng County, Nanyang, Henan Province.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Huns invaded the Central Plains many times. In order to fight against the Huns together with Dayue, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions in 138 BC.

On the way to the west, he was captured by Xiongnu and imprisoned for ten years.

In the past ten years, he has been herding sheep, releasing horses and doing hard work for the Xiongnu, carefully keeping the scepter of the messenger and remembering his mission.

After taking the opportunity to escape, I arrived at Dayue's home in the west in a few days.

At that time, the Yues had settled down and didn't want to go east to fight Xiongnu, so Zhang Qian had to go east to return home.

On his way home, he was captured by the Huns and banned for more than a year.

In BC 126, Zhang Qian returned to Chang 'an, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty named him a doctor of Tai Zhong.

Zhang Qian recorded the mountains, rivers, geography, customs and customs of the western regions during his mission to the western regions, which made the Han court know the real situation of the western regions for the first time.

Sima Qian called this behavior "hollowing out".

In BC 123, Zhang Qian took Wei Qing as the captain to crusade against Xiongnu, and was named "Bo Wanghou" for his meritorious service.

In BC 1 19, Zhang Qian was appointed as a corps commander, led 300 soldiers and took 10,000 cattle and sheep to the Western Regions for the second time.

In 65438 BC+065438 BC+05 BC, he returned to Chang 'an with Wu Sun's envoy to pay homage to Taihang.

Zhang Qian died of illness in 1 14 BC.

Subsequently, Zhang Qian's envoys sent to Dawan, Kangju, Daxia, Da Yue's, Rest in Peace and other countries also came to Chang 'an with the envoys of various countries.

Since then, the Han Dynasty has established long-term friendly relations with countries in the western regions.

Zhang Qian spoke again.

□ Zhou Jiachang

Zhang Qian shouldered the heavy responsibility of being a friendly emissary and made two missions to the Western Regions, which Sima Qian called "hollowing out"-closed and open.

If we change "hollowing out" into a modern word, there will be no more accurate word "opening up".

In other words, as early as 2000 years ago today, our ancestors began to carry out reform and opening up.

As a native of Nanyang, I am proud of Zhang Qian's enfeoffment of Nanyang and moved by the spirit of Zhang Qian. Nanyang's reform and opening up should draw strength from it, let the new Silk Road extend from Nanyang to all parts of the world, and let Nanyang go global.

Zhang Heng (AD 78 ~ 139) was born in Xi, Nanyang County (now Shiqiao, Wolong District) in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

China was a great scientist, inventor and writer in history, and was later honored as "Kesheng".

1970, the international astronomical organization named a crater on the moon "Zhang Hengshan", 1977, and named an asteroid in the solar system 1802 "Zhang Hengxing".

In 2003, in order to show his hometown Nanyang, this asteroid with the international permanent number 9092 was named "Nanyang Star".

Zhang Heng studied hard since childhood. 16, 17 years old traveled to Xiaxi and Luoyang and went to imperial academy to study.

In 100, Zhang Heng became the master book of Nanyang.

In11/year, he entered Beijing, paid homage to the doctor first, and then moved to Taishiling.

In a.d. 136, it became the Hejian phase, and later worshipped Shangshu.

Zhang Heng is an encyclopedic figure.

Astronomically, Zhang Heng's "Water Leakage to Amazon" is the first instrument in the world to demonstrate the Sunday motion of stars and the sun.

He is the representative figure of Huntian Theory, one of China's ancient cosmological structure theories.

In seismology, he invented the "waiting wind seismograph", which is the first instrument in the world to measure earthquakes and their directions.

In mathematics, he wrote Arithmetic, and calculated the value of pi between 3. 1466 and 3. 1622, which was more than 300 years earlier than Europe.

In geography, he drew a complete topographic map.

In addition, he also developed some amazing devices, such as drum car in mind, guide car, flying wooden kite alone, Swiss wheel pod and so on.

In terms of literature, Zhang Heng's Erjing Fu is the "extreme track" of Han Fu.

"Du Nan Fu" expressed a hometown boy's love and praise for Nanyang with full and warm feelings, and people rushed to circulate it.

In terms of art, he was once ranked as the first of the six great masters in the later Han Dynasty.

In memory of Zhang Heng, Nanyang City built a memorial hall for Zhang Heng in Shiqiao.

Eternal Zhang Heng

□ Zhou

I once suggested that the statue of Zhang Heng Wei 'an should be erected in the most conspicuous place in Nanyang city, so that this most qualified and greatest ancestor can be regarded as a symbol of outstanding figures, a representative of Nanyang's excellent traditional culture, an image ambassador to show the world the charm of Nanyang culture, and a spiritual driving force for Nanyang people to carry forward the past and rebuild their glory.

Zhang Heng's name has long been written on asteroids in the universe and craters on the moon. Such figures are rare in China and even in the world.

He belongs to China and the world.

He is almost the only person in Nanyang who can make the whole world proud.

Zhang Heng is a genius, a wizard, a generalist and a generalist. He made outstanding achievements in scientific research, mechanical manufacturing, philosophical thinking and literary creation, which all represented the highest level at that time.

His roots are firmly rooted in his hometown of Nanyang, and his heart will always be tied to the country.

From reading poetry books as a child, to becoming an official in Beijing, to begging for bones in Hejian after retirement, and finally buried in Sang Zi. Although he was troubled and suffered a lot, he just realized the glory of life and walked out of perfection.

Zhang Heng in history, Zhang Heng in culture, Zhang Heng in personality, and Zhang Heng in thought are all models of intellectuals in one hundred generations.

Contemporary Nanyang people should inherit Zhang Heng's spiritual heritage, pass it on from generation to generation and carry it forward.

Du Nan Fu, which he created in large quantities, is a deep hymn and love song for his hometown. Nanyang, a great man, will live forever in this magnificent and brilliant great fu, immortal.

Today, we are going to write a new Nanfu, not only on paper, but also on the earth.

Only by doing this can we be worthy of Zhang Heng's descendants!

Many people and things rot quickly, but Zhang Heng is eternal.

I think, even if Zhang Heng's statue can't be erected for a while, at least let him stand in the hearts of Nanyang people first.